Direction arrows: free printable line tracing worksheet
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- Age
- 3–5
- Pages
- 1
- Paper
- A4
- Language
- हिं + En
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About this sheet
What is on the page, and how to get the most out of it.
Five rows of short strokes, each one ending in an arrowhead: curved S shapes going up, diagonals going down and left, arcs turning down, wandering paths going up, and loops rising to a point.
This is the only sheet in the pre-writing set where direction is the entire lesson. Everywhere else, a child traces a shape and it does not much matter which end they start from. Here, every stroke has an arrow, so there is a right way round and a wrong one.
That matters more than it sounds. Letters and numbers all have a correct direction of travel, and a child who has settled into drawing shapes whichever way is convenient has to unlearn it later, usually when writing speeds up and the habit starts costing them. Meeting the idea of direction before letters is much easier than correcting it after.
The arrows also point in genuinely different ways: up, down, down-left, and up-right. Working out where a stroke ends before starting it is the skill being practised, not the shape itself.
Save this one for last. It makes most sense after the other six sheets are comfortable.
What your child practises
The only sheet where direction is the lesson, which is the idea letters depend on later.
- Starting a stroke at the correct end
- Reading an arrow before drawing
- Travelling in four different directions
- Preparing for correct letter formation
Common questions
Why does the direction of a line matter?
Every letter and number has a correct direction of travel. A child who draws shapes whichever way is convenient has to unlearn it later, and that is harder than learning it now.
Should this sheet come first or last?
Last. It makes most sense once the other six sheets are comfortable and your child is ready to think about direction rather than just shape.
